Religion: Baby Noah

From an Israeli scholar comes a new and, in itself, marvelous addition
to the story of Noah, taken from the latest of the Dead Sea Scrolls to
be unrolled.

The story, reported one of its translators, Soldier-Scholar Yigael
Yadin of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, was written on goatskin in
Aramaic in "a very pleasant hand." It tells how Noah's father Lamech
(son of Methuselah) was married to his own sistera custom
necessitated in earliest times by the shortage of women. Lamech,
according to the scroll, began to suspect that Baby Noah was not his
own childapparently with good reason. At birth the child...